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To: diji
I guess the Air Force forgot this:

The poem, High Flight, has over the years become a mantra to pilots.

High Flight

Oh! I have slipped the surly bonds of earth
And danced the skies on laughter-silvered wings;
Sunward I've climbed, and joined the tumbling mirth
Of sun-split clouds - and done a hundred things
You have not dreamed of - wheeled and soared
and swung
High in the sunlit silence. Hov'ring there
I've chased the shouting wind along, and flung
My eager craft through footless halls of air.

Up, up the long delirious, burning blue,
I've topped the windswept heights with easy grace
Where never lark, or even eagle flew -
And, while with silent lifting mind I've trod
The high untresspassed sanctity of space,
Put out my hand and touched the face
of God.

Pilot Officer Gillespie Magee
No 412 squadron, RCAF
Killed 11 December 1941

9 posted on 02/09/2012 7:22:24 PM PST by CitizenM (Obama's legacy will be to be remembered as The architect of the decline of the USA)
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To: CitizenM

BM
Thank you, CitizenM.


17 posted on 02/10/2012 8:07:05 AM PST by diji (IF YOU DON'T STAND BEHIND OUR TROOPS, PLEASE, FEEL FREE TO STAND IN FRONT OF THEM !)
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To: CitizenM

GOTT MIT UNS


18 posted on 02/10/2012 11:42:53 AM PST by satan (Plumbing new depths of worthlessness on a daily basis.)
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